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Best-Reviewed Horror Movies 2016 From supernatural happenings to bloodthirsty killers, these spooky flicks earned praise – and a fair number of shivers – from the critics. The order of the list reflects the scores as of December 31, 2016, but the number displayed on the Adjusted Tomatometer may change as more reviews keep getting added after the end of the year.
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- The Eyes of My Mother. When it comes down to it, The Eyes Of My Mother is not for the faint of heart. This extremely graphic horror film by Nicolas Pesce (in his impressive directorial debut) is incredibly well-done, but many find the graphic nature of the film muddles the great storytelling the film offers.
- The Invitation. The Invitation did the film festival circuit in 2015, but gained a much broader audience when it was picked up in 2016 by Netflix. In Karyn Kusama's thriller-horror film, we're introduced to a pretty awkward situation right off the bat.
- The Monster. The Monster, a unexpectedly emotional horror film written and directed by Bryan Bertino, was originally supposed to star Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss.
- Ouija: Origin of Evil. If you've seen the first Ouija film, you're probably with the vast majority of viewers who weren't into it. However, Ouija: Origin of Evil ended up being one of those rare prequels that proved to be better than the first film.
Oct 26, 2016 · The Witch (2015) 91%. This eerie period horror film follows a Puritan family terrorized by an unseen presence in the forest that slowly begins to drive them apart. Available on: Amazon, Amazon Prime, FandangoNOW. Get your modern horror fix this Halloween with Fresh and Certified Fresh scary movies from an unusually wonderful horrible year!
3 days ago · And for our annual October update, we welcome newcomers When Evil Lurks, Oddity, Alien: Romulus, Abigail, A Quiet Place: Day One, Longlegs, and Late Night with the Devil. Ready to settle in for dark nights of Fresh fear? Then flip the switch on the 200 best horror movies of all time.
- Ouija: Origins of Evil
- The Shallows
- The Purge: Election Year
- The Invitation
- The Monster
- Demon
- Don't Breathe
- The Alchemist Cookbook
- Train to Busan
- I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives in The House
The original Ouija was about as thrilling as an extended marathon of pencil sharpening, largely due to a deeply formulaic, fright-free screenplay and a severe lack of vision. It wasn’t exactly the Platinum Dunes School of Grim, Safe Horseshit, but it wasn’t much better. Ouija: Origin of Evil, however, not only brandishes a far more honed script fro...
Bless Jaume Collet-Serra and his respect for a good B-Movie. The Orphan and House of Wax director brings his cheeky sensibilities to the terrors of mother nature withThe Shallows, a simple, direct, and incredibly effective thriller that lands just about square in the middle between Jaws andSharknado on the sharksploitation scale. The film follows B...
Okay, so it’s not exactly as efficient as The Purge: Anarchy was, as both a horror movie and an action flick. Still, Election Year confidently expanded on the world ofAnarchy and was rife with ugly, enraged images of a blood-lusting nation that so perfectly reflects Donald Trump’s America. (Quiet down, you comment trolls: I know it came out before ...
Greif is a bitch. The loss of a loved one, especially those most tragic, will leave you coiled in the icy hot grip of despair and if you’re not careful you can drag the people you love down with you into the bitter cold. The Invitation is horror by way of grief, a real-life ghost story about how we are haunted not by specters and ghouls, but by the...
Bryan Bertino had a pretty impossible task in front of him when he turned to The Monster: follow up the new cult classic that is The Strangers. Instead of going bigger with his long-delayed second feature, he enriched the simple story of a mother, her daughter, and a strange, savage beast with a familiar, if still affective portrait of addiction. B...
Possession becomes a link to historical reckoning in Marcin Wrona’s unnerving take on the Jewish myth of the dybbuk, a restless, chaotic spirit who takes hold of a living person. Here, the unsteady binds that tie Poland to Europe in the wake of the Holocaust, are reflected in the wedding between a Polish woman and her Londoner groom, which is uproo...
Fede Alvarez showed some major chutzpah when he made his English-language feature debut by tackling the impossible -- a remake of the venerated classic Evil Dead. This year he raised the stakes even higher with a hard-R original tale of home invasion gone horribly awry in his staggering box office hit, Don't Breathe. Reuniting with hisEvil Dead fin...
Fans of The Evil Dead may feel some quick kinship to this exhilarating oddity from Joel Potrykus, in which a young, isolated, and heavily medicated man named Sean loses his pills and seemingly encounters the legions of hell in the process. Credit newcomer Ty Hickson for fearlessly bringing the self-inflicted damage, confusion, and never-ending anxi...
Boy howdy has it been a long time since I got excited about a zombie movie, but writer-director Sang-Ho Yeon takes a concept as reductive as “zombies on a train” and turns it into a propulsive, action-packed, and surprisingly touching spin on the burnt out genre. The story centers around a selfish businessman and his neglected daughter when she beg...
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House doesn't have much in the way of story, but what it lacks in narrative, it makes up in atmospheric chills and slow-burn dread. That said, if you like your horror with propulsive action, move right along to the next entry because this one's definitely not for everyone. It is, however, one of the closest e...
It is truly a masterpiece of period horror/drama Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/25/24 Full Review IrateTyrant C Pretentious without substance This movie tries hard to be high-brow ...
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Dec 23, 2016 · Kudos to Mr. Flanagan on having a rather impressive 2016: Not only is Hush a winner, but his Ouija: Origin of Evil turned out a lot better than people expected. Well Go USA. 9. The Wailing. This ...
